In a message dated 6/23/2008 1:26:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, toddmallen@gmail.com writes:

And the NYT and the like, compared to Wikipedia, aren't going to "fade" anytime soon. Archives of major newspapers from over a century ago are available. >>>

------------------------------------------- I'd like to add, that contrary to newspaper reports going away over time, the opposite is happening. The huge surge in interest in genealogy, is bringing many old newspapers out-of-the-grave and onto sites like ancestry, genealogy and newspaperarchive.

Thousands of pages per day are being put back into the "easy part" of the public domain. That part you can view from your desk instead of going to some repository. The ability to trawl these old newspapers is now becoming a core feature of many genealogy services and will soon be hitting history and biography in a major way as well.

Will Johnson

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